Episode 70: A Holiday Roast

Jared: You’re listening to Faith for Normal People, the only other God-ordained podcast on the internet.

Pete: I’m Pete Enns. 

Jared: And I’m Jared Byas.

Brittany: Hi everyone. Happy holidays. I’m Brittany and I’m the producer of the Bible for Normal People and Faith for Normal People podcasts. 

Joel: I’m Joel. I’m the editor for the podcasts. 

Brittany: We are back with our third annual holiday blooper reel. We’ve been collecting our favorite behind the scenes clips all year long so we can share some laughs with you, our faithful audience as we head into a new year.

Joel: This was our first season of the podcast with a full video setup. So if you’d like to watch this blooper reel for extra credit, AKA to boost our viewer count, you can head over to our YouTube channel to watch this and every single one of our episodes of this season of the podcast. 

Brittany: Sadly, this is the last episode of 2025, so it marks the start of our annual podcast break.

But don’t worry, we’re not going anywhere. Pete and Jared will be back in February to kick off season ten of The Bible for Normal People and season four of Faith for Normal People. From all of us at B4NP, thanks for your support this year and we’ll see you in 2026. And now we present a holiday roast.

Jared: Okay. Okay. No, that’s cool. I just, sometimes it’s, you know, it’s good to get all this banter. Yeah. You never know when it’s gonna be useful. 

Pete: All right. I hope you like editing, Joel. Yeah. Here we go. 

Jared: All right. Welcome everyone. On today’s episode we’re talking, let me try that again. That was terrible. Alright.

Pete: Alright.

Alright. And I’m still confused. This is not a video.

Jared: This is video, but it’s not SoNP exclusive. This is not live, but we are recording the video. 

Pete: Okay. So we can flub up and edit. 

Jared: Correct. It can be edited, but we do need to look at the camera. 

Pete: Okay. 

Jared: All right everybody, let’s do it. 

Pete: First. 

Jared: Okay. I know I’m getting ready.

I gotta get in the mode. I gotta get in the mindset, you know what I’m saying? 

Pete: Do a pushup or two or something. 

Jared: Alright. Exactly. Get the blood flowing. All right. 

Pete: I think you’re getting better. 

Jared: I don’t wanna get better. You need to get better then I’m losing my Texan. 

Pete: I know, that’s the whole point. 

Jared: I don’t wanna lose my Texan.

I’ve already lost the accent. 

Pete: I just thought it was adorable. You did. You don’t. You do not have a Texan accent. 

Jared: I think that’s assimilation. 

Pete: You just want people to know what the hell you’re talking about. 

Jared: That is so pretentious. If people don’t know whether I’m talking about a penny or a pinney because I say it. Inns and Enns.

Pete: Oh, Pete Enns.

Jared: That’s just pretentious.

Pete: I had a title that came to me in a dream. 

Jared: Okay. Dream that you were, were you sleeping during that interview? 

Pete: No. Um, yesterday I bounced off Brittany. She thought it was funny. Um, what is a paratext and how often do you have to feed it? Come on, I dare you. Come on, let’s have some fun.

Jared: Alright everybody. It’s that time of year again. 

Pete: Sorry, I was thinking about the bleep. Do it, do it again. I’m sorry. My mind, my ADHD mind was in another tab at that moment there. The live class and Q-&-A are happening on Thursday, June 26th from 8:00 to 9:00 PM Eastern time followed-

Jared: Nope. Nope. It is 8:00 to 9:30 PM 

Pete: I, that’s, I was gonna say that. I’m testing you. 

Jared: 8:00 to 9:00 PM Eastern Time-thirty. Is that what you were gonna do? 

Pete: It’s the pressure of getting through all these in the time we have. It’s too much for me. Okay. Hey everybody. On today’s episode, we’re talking about what to do about divine violence.

Jared: No it’s not. It’s violence in the Bible. 

Pete: Violence in the Bible. Sorry. You put that in there. Yes. There we go. I got it. I’m a professional violence in the Bible. I’m a professional. Yeah. As long as this isn’t live, we’re fine. 

Jared: Okay. You gotta, you gotta improvise those four words. Ready? 

Gen Z, cohort group who participated in conversations about faith, the Bible and the life over the last year.

How did I say? And the life kind of, yeah. Alright. In addition to all that, this episode is extra special because, oh. In addition to all that, this episode is extra special because of, because of instead. Oh my God. We’re gonna get it. We’re gonna get it.

Pete: Get your copy today at www.thebiblefornormalpeople.com/godsstories. 

Can I do that again without saying www? 

Nailed it. One take, baby. Unbelievable. 

Jared: I know. 

Pete: Unbelievable. How did the world survive without, before we were born?

Jared: It didn’t very well.

No, and you can comment. Commentate, commentate, commentate, comment, commentary, ate, comment. I think commentary. Ate is, is the official.

Pete: I heard you shouldn’t say commentator.

Here where it’s a commentary is a commenter. Not a, not a commentator. Not a commentator, but we say commentators. It’s actually not right to say that. And I learned that in graduate school, but I’ve never once said commenter. 

Jared: That’s right. Well that I know it’s, anyway. Alright. Anyway, 

Pete: That was irrelevant.

That’s definitely not relevant for people’s lives, right? 

Jared: That’s the most important thing to take out of this.

So, hold on, let’s skip this. Today on Faith for Normal People we’re talking about, what do we wanna call it? Focus Pete. Perfect. Wonderful. Nailed it. 

Pete: Nailed it. Glad we, we were able to fix that.

Jared: Three hours later. Just leave it on that dramatic pause. We’ll see. 

Pete: We’ll just, we’ll just yak. We’ll yak, we’ll yak for 40 minutes. We’ll be fine. Yuck. Yeah. 

Jared: Yapping. That’s what the kids say now. Yapping. 

Pete: Yapping? Interesting. I’m not a kid though. I’m not gonna say yap. I’ll say yak.

Jared: Get your phone off man. We’re video now. We’re high time. I should, yep. Cell phones are off. I don’t even have mine. I know with video I’m gonna lose. Sometimes I do. You know. I like to look up Bible verses. That’s what I’m doing. On Instagram. 

Pete: I don’t need, I don’t need to look up Bible verses.

Jared: Okay.

Pete: Where’s that coming from? 

Jared: My mouth. It’s my special instrument.

Pete: I know, but did you, did you hear? Did you like that hymn particularly, or is it just something coming? I don’t even remember that it [00:07:00] was a hymn. I just, I 

Jared: I don’t even remember that it was a hymn. I just, I-

Pete: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.

Jared: Oh. I have like three hymns. You should ask my wife. Okay. I have like three or four hymns and the national anthem that I really constantly humming.

Pete: Okay. He’s gonna give us the big picture. 

Jared: Pete’s eyes aren’t what they used to be. We gotta get the screen a little bigger. 

Pete: It makes them feel like they’re in the room more. Even though, even though they’re not, if you saw this, there we go. 

Jared: If you saw this setup, that would be laughable.

Pete: This looks really huge, but we’re like in a closet right now, so. Alright. 

Janet: Somebody once said there is a difference between, sorry, I’m, I’m hearing funny noise is, are you hearing from anyone as well? Yeah, I’m too. So do we need to pause for a second? 

Angela: I think, do we know what it is?

Pete: Is it, is it a, is it a humming noise? 

Janet: Yeah. 

Pete: There, there’s a, there is a leaf blower outside my window and they’re moving as we speak. 

Angela: Oh, no, noise is not my noise. 

Pete: I, I think that shows a little bit of humanity in the podcast. 

Janet: Oh, oh, nice. You think it’s an angelic intervention? Yes.

Jared: Sorry, whose dog is that? Is that your dog? 

Mariko: Oh, I don’t have a dog. Not me.

Jen: It’s my dog, but it’s so far away,and my son is supposed to be taking care of this problem, so, okay. I didn’t think he would even see, like he, I have like two closed doors between us.

Pete: Do, do you play shuffleboard? I need to ask you that. Do you, please say no?

No? Okay, good, good, good. Okay. 

Jared: Don’t judge the shuffleboard. 

Pete: Hey, you know what? Hey, it’s, it’s my filter, man. I gotta deal with this. 

John Dominic: That’s a fate worse than death.

Jared: Chauncey Phillips.

Pete: Exactly. Who’s that? 

Jared: Just ignore him. 

Pete: Go ahead. 

Mariko: I had gotten really into the BEMA Discipleship podcast.

I don’t know if either of you’re fans, but, um, yeah. 

Jared: We’ll take this out ’cause you just mentioned another podcast. On this podcast, so, we’ll-

Mariko: So sorry. Strike it. A huge mistake on my part. 

Jared: All, all I heard was that The Bible for Normal People podcast was not adequate for your congregation. And you had to supplement it with a new book.

Pete: Wow. That’s a good point. Are we done here? Come on, come on, done here. Thanks for coming, Zach. That was a great time. 

Jared: Come into our house with, and that’s what you start with. 

Jen: You know, I really, I, I, I did everything I could to twist arms, you know, to get them to be Bible for normal people folks.

And a lot of them were, you know, but, um, gosh, it just left a little something to be desired. I’m not gonna say what that was, but, you know, you’ve been looking forward to this avenue Bill. This is like your bucket list, right?

Bill: My bucket is to be on Pete Enn’s show, and then I found out Cynthia was gonna be here too.

And so. Things only got that much better. 

Pete: Even better. And as we’re winding down, we will say something clear like we’re coming to the end of our time. One more question. Okay. And that usually means don’t give a 10 minute answer. You’re a pastor. You know how this works.

Jared: Yeah. But he’s a pastor so he is most likely to offend the, the time limit here because Yeah. 

Zach: You literally gave me a mic. He literally sent me a mic, so that’s terrible idea. 

Pete: Thanks bud. 

Jared: Is that any way to talk to your boss or superior? Bud? Disrespect.

Pete: I could have called him something else.

Jared: That was fun. I, I think the, um, I totally just lost my train of thought, so I have no idea where I was going with that, but yeah, it was a good thought. It was a great thought. It was the best thought. Um, so. I just lost my train of thought, but I’ll get it back in three seconds. Hold on a second. 

Pete: Oh, did you take your pill today?

Jared: Yeah. Right. I maybe I took too many pills today. Yeah. What did we talk about? I don’t even remember what’s happening. 

Jennifer: Teaching the kids the Bible. No. 

Jared: Teaching the kids. 

Jennifer: Teaching the kids. Teaching kids the Bible. 

Jared: Bible education. Sometimes. 

Pete: You were fine. I’m just saying you’re on earlier than Drew. ’cause we wanna get used to your accent before we interview you.

Maybe it shouldn’t be five feet away from you then Jarrod. I’m thinking that will help. Okay. Not, not to be, not to be judgmental.

Jared: When Pete is talking down to you about technology, you know, you’re on, you’re bad, you’re on the bottom rung. 

Just because, you know, in the old, in the good old days, back when, when, uh, the golden age of podcasting, we didn’t do video.

We didn’t have SoNP, so we could just drop f-bombs. We could do whatever we wanted. But now- 

Pete: Yeah. People are actually listening. 

Jared: Now it’s live, you know? Okay, 

Guest: So, so keep it what, PG-13, like one F bomb. 

Jared: One F bomb. Yes. Yeah, exactly. One max, PG-13. Exactly. Okay. 

Pete: Okay. We’re so awesome. Anna. You’re amazing. This is so professional.

Anna: I know. 

Pete: It’s so, it must be intimidating to the rest of the people. How good we are at this.

What kind of dog and pony show is this for heaven’s sake? I’m very, it’s, I’m very unnerved by the fact that you can, you can see us, but you, you can see us, but we can’t see.

Jared: She figured it out. Sounds good. 

Pete: Bye Brittany. See you, Brittany. See ya. 

Jared: Ah, so no, Savannah, you’ve just experienced the last like four episodes we’ve recorded. It’s been this messy, but yeah. 

Brittany: I’m sorry that, that’s so much chaos. 

Pete: I’m exhausted.

I don’t even know if I can go through with this. 

Brittany: Pete. Seriously. Same. Like I just realized I’m tired. 

Pete: I need a nap right now. Can we do this in an hour? Yeah. No, I’m just kidding. 

Jared: This is gonna go so badly because I cannot stop looking at you guys.

Pete: I just glance over ’cause I’m fidgety anyway, so nobody will know the difference.

Jared: We have, we have the camera on a ladder, literally on a painter’s ladder right here. Really? 

Savanah: I wish you could show me, ’cause I genuinely wanna see it, 

Jared: But the camera that is recording our faces is right in front of us, so I’m gonna be looking off camera the entire time. 

Savannah: Pete’s taking a picture because we wanted to know. 

Jared: Okay, are we ready to go? Let’s get this party started.

Pete: Not really. Hold on. I have to send this to Savannah so she’ll laugh the whole time. 

Savannah: I’m already kind of laughing. 

Pete: We, we could move the camera. We could move that camera. Let’s not do it. Move that camera. 

Jared: No. 

Pete: Move the camera. And then we’ll put the ladder over there.

Jared: The ladder cannot move. There’s too many tripods in the one. 

Beth: Hey Savannah. I’m understanding why you didn’t think I was a problem to work with.

Savannah: Beth, this was my life. This was my life. 

Jared: Alright, we good to go? Joel?

You didn’t sound very confident. Okay. 

It was like a yes. I guess I’m ready. I don’t know. Okay. Whatever. Let’s go. You can make something to that. 

Joel: We can, we can leave the message. 

Jared: Yeah, feel free. I mean, you guys do whatever. You’re in charge. You’re in charge. 

That’s good. He gets it. He gets it. I’m like, you guys decide She’s, he’s like, uh, Brittany will tell us what to do. Are we videoing? Okay. But there’s nothing. It’s just the void. I know. So if you, if you could just type up an entire script real quick and throw it in there, that’d be great. 

Alright. Yeah. There’s gotta be a monitoring system or something where you don’t have to have a second monitor. Yeah. You just need like four, five monitors. Great. 

Pete: Or just sit behind us. Just sit behind us the whole time, Joel. It’s fine. Like, Hey, this is Joel. Don’t just, don’t pay attention.

Jared: Just ignore the man behind the curtain. Yeah. If you could see the circus act that Joel has to pull to get this, he’s like looking over a thing and he can’t actually see what he’s trying to click on. All right. We’re good to go. 

Pete: Okay. Yeah, I’m, uh, I, is the camera gonna be on both of us? I have to look interested.

Okay. It’s too early in the morning, but No, that’s fine. That works. That’s fine. Brittany won’t like it. Hi, Brittany. 

Jared: It’s actually Brittany’s fault for sending too many emails. Yes, 

Pete: Exactly. 

Jared: We always read them. It just isn’t at the time. Maybe that’s appropriate. I read it. I read it five minutes before Pete got here and said, oh, shoot, maybe, maybe you shoulda stayed home.

Pete: Then he called me, I’m pulling in. He says, um, Joel’s not here. I was like, well, do you want me to go back home? No. We’ll figure it out. So, Joel, it’s all good. Joel screwed up again. Yep, that’s right. It’s always Joel’s fault.

Jared: That’s half the reason I like having him here. All the problems are just Joel’s fault. Joel. Joel did it. Joel scapegoat. Exactly. Joel. We learned nothing from that episode. Scapegoat in. 

Pete: Hey, Joel, all that stuff can, can you make the picture bigger? So we just eventually, so we just see. Pete’s old. He can’t see Aaron. Well, I’m just, Aaron’s says like, there you go. Much better. Hi. Aaron. 

Jared: It’s not Faith for Normal People It’s today on Bible for Normal People. It’s our last rebellion.

This is great. ‘Cause Joel, you’re gonna be the one that interacts with Brittany and then you can just blame us. 

Pete: We just, they just don’t care. And then we just, Brittany, they’re outta control. 

Jared: Then we just won’t answer her emails. I know. 

Pete: And, and we won’t use her stupid-

Jared: Then she’ll quit and we’ll feel really bad and be screwed.

Pete: We all should’ve thought through this a little more. 

Jared: This is, this is definitely our dynamic where Pete is always like, you’re fine, you’re fine. And I’m like, no. Write down what you need to write down. Get all the right facts down. 

Pete: I’ll, I’ll, I’ll think of it when I think, by the way, Kent’s the same way you’re out now. 

Jared: That’s good. I mean, you guys are, uh, just smarter than me is part of it. You trust that you will come up with these things. 

Kent: We trust that you have an editor. Yeah, we trust you. 

Jared: That’s true. We trust Joel. God, we trust in editors more. 

Jared: Are we done? It’s a wrap, y’all. 

Well, thanks to everyone who supports the show. If you wanna support what we do, there are three ways you can do it. One, if you just wanna give a little money, go to thebiblefornormalpeople.com/give. 

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Jared: And lastly, it goes a long way. If you just wanted to rate the podcast, leave a review and tell others about our show. In addition, you can let us know what you thought about the episode by emailing us at info@thebiblefornormalpeople.com. Outro: You’ve just made it through another episode of Faith for Normal People. Don’t forget, you can catch our other show, The Bible for Normal People, in the same feed wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was brought to you by The Bible for Normal People team.